ANDREW MITCHELL: Well we're a small country village, population of around 1,300. Something like this very extraordinary for us to have. We had virtually no crime at all let alone a murder.

BRENDAN TREMBATH: Police have interviewed just about everybody.

ANDREW MITCHELL: They have spoken to myself and my staff here and they've interviewed everybody in relation to the last movements of that man and what's been happening.

BRENDAN TREMBATH: It must have been a strange situation to have something like that happen in your town and then to have everybody go through the process.

ANDREW MITCHELL: It is, it's very unusual. It was an odd thing to happen. The neighbour, which was one of my tenants, came down the morning when the police had arrived and was white and shaken from the news, you know, and so it is, it's just something that's never heard in Boorowa let alone our district and it's really shaken the roots of Boorowa.

BRENDAN TREMBATH: Detective inspector Angelo Memmolo from the Homicide Squad was in Borrowa this week to review the case.

ANGELO MEMMOLO: We've got a couple of hundred left to speak to. As you probably realise that would be a fairly big job in itself and reasonably unusual for us to do a whole township.

BRENDAN TREMBATH: What's the impression you're getting?

ANGELO MEMMOLO: It's very hard to talk about impressions but certainly we are treating this as a murder and we'd be keen to speak to anyone who may have information about Mr Lowe's movements prior to the discovery of his body on the 7th and certainly anyone who may know Barry well or may have some information about Barry himself.

We're interested in speaking to anyone who may have been passing through the town or somebody from the township itself that may have seen something out of place and sometimes peoples tend to think, oh I won't bother the police with a little bit of information which may not be really interesting but we may find it interesting.

BRENDAN TREMBATH: Barry Lowe was a farmer who enjoyed fishing.

ANGELO MEMMOLO: He did tend to do a bit of fishing over the Kimberleys. He had friends within the township, a good bloke from what I've been told and that's, we're still trying to piece together his movements over the last year or so and some of his associates, you know, we're keen to speak to all those people.

ANGELO MEMMOLO: They're on edge and they're a bit worried and what have you about a murder happening within their midst and fairly close to where they live. I just want to reassure them that we will do everything in our power to solve this murder.

BRENDAN TREMBATH: It's not the first murder investigation in Boorowa but few locals would be old enough to remember a case reported in the Canberra Times in December 1950.

It was headlined "Brutal Murder at Boorowa".

The victim was a 48-year-old man, found in his room at Glasmore Station.